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Terahertz spectroscopy: the new tool to help detect art fraud

  • Written by: Roger Lewis, Associate Dean Research, Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences, University of Wollongong
imageThe pigments can look very different when viewed with terahertz 'eyes'. Shutterstock/Garry0305

When we look at a painting, how do we know it’s a genuine piece of art?

Everything we see with the unaided eye in a painting – from the Australian outback images of Albert Namatjira or Russell Drysdale, to the vibrant works of Pro Hart –...

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Fairytale no more: when love turns to hatefully ever after

  • Written by: Rachael Sharman, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageLittle good comes when love turns to hate.Shutterstock

It’s often said that the opposite to love is not hate, it’s indifference. Why then are some of us so seemingly fickle in our ability to switch from love to hate in an instant?

To understand hate, we must first (try to) understand love.

Psychologists are not even in agreement that...

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Australia’s biggest emitters opt to 'wait and see' over Emissions Reduction Fund

  • Written by: Jayanthi Kumarasiri, Lecturer in Accounting, Swinburne University of Technology

Many of Australia’s most carbon-intensive companies are either not participating in the federal government’s flagship Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF), or are adopting a wait-and-see approach, according to our survey of senior executives.

The ERF, introduced in 2014 after the repeal of the carbon tax, is the central component in the...

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Fireworks, feelings, and fraught relations at Eurovision 2017

  • Written by: Jess Carniel, Lecturer in Humanities, University of Southern Queensland

For one week in May, the bleary-eyed in our workplaces are not the sports fans following northern hemisphere leagues, nor are they the new parents. They are Eurovision fans. And we are legion.

The Eurovision Song Contest offers its fans glitz (or at least glitter), glamour, politics, intrigue, increasingly limited lessons in how to count in French...

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